New to OSM, these past few days have been my first steps onboard. I’ve been meaning to contribute to HOT for a while, and the Nepal event finally spurred me into action. I put in about 3k building footprints on the day after the earthquake - back then they were some of the first building footprints in the rural areas. Pretty proud of that. Now, 6 days later, it is hard to find unmapped buildings! The swift progress on this data capture is amazing to see.

I’ve certainly learnt a few lessons along the way about doing things the OSM way, thanks to some of the HOTOSM user community. Very welcoming.

In 4 days time I am hoping to put as many volunteers from our office as possible to the task; I’m expecting somewhere between 8 - 15 people to be involved. Hopefully we can make a pretty big dent over the course of a day - and with luck some of the folk will carry on in their spare time. We will see how it goes.